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Business Data Connectivity Services
Business Connectivity Services is a centralized infrastructure in
SharePoint that supports integrated data solutions. With Business
Connectivity Services, you can use SharePoint clients as interfaces
into data that doesn’t live in SharePoint itself. For example, this
external data may be in a database and it is accessed by using the outof-the-box Business Connectivity Services connector for that database.

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Core Functions
The core function of the BDC is to provide connectivity to various kinds of
external systems, and it has built-in support for connecting to the following
kinds of data sources:
Databases
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Web services
Microsoft .NET Framework assemblies
Custom data sources

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Demo 2,
Centralized infrastructure Business Connectivity Services is a centralized infrastructure that
supports integrated data solutions .
Managed authentication Another advantage of the centralized infrastructure in Business
Connectivity Services is that it handles the security transactions with the external system.
Search external content Because the Business Connectivity Services infrastructure is built into
SharePoint, it takes advantage of common SharePoint features such as Search